Think Draw - Picture - The First Thanksgiving Dinner

Title: The First Thanksgiving Dinner
created on 17 Nov 11

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1. chelydra wrote: Once upon a time, a little band of brave men, women, and children, seeking freedom and opportunity, arrived in the virgin wilderness of North America...
2. chelydra wrote: ...They conquered the wilderness... Between 11,000 and 9,000 BC, about 90% of the big wild animals of their new home were hunted to extinction. There were many great feasts, and they presumably gave thanks for their bounteous and beautiful new land given
3. chelydra wrote: ...to them by their Creator...
4. clorophilla wrote: ...the wild animals did thanks a bit lesser
5. bluemoon wrote: awe!
6. DilCoura wrote: Muito bom!
7. five wrote: that's a proud animal
8. chelydra wrote: Five very different kinds of elephant greeted the first humans to the Americas. All got eaten. Horses and camels had evolved in the Americas; a few escaped westward into Asia, the rest got eaten. It was quite a feast.
9. chelydra wrote: So when people tell you ecological crises are the result of big populations, or advanced technologies, or capitalist (or commie) value-systems... it ain't necessarily so. (Though all may contribute.)
10. chelydra wrote: Meanwhile, back in Africa where our ancestors all originally came from, 80% of large mammals did NOT go extinct 10,000 years ago. The Asian beasts (where humans have been around for about a million years) did relatively well, too. The first Indians to arr
11. chelydra wrote: ...arrive in the New World were a bit like the smallpox microbes the Europeans carried to the Indians (sometimes on purpose) much later. The other species had no immunity to spear-throwing brigades of humans because they'd never been exposed before. (In A
12. chelydra wrote: (In Australia, New Zealand, and Polynesia, extinctions came as soon as people showed up.)
13. chelydra wrote: So we could say the native Americans and Australians are BSing when they speak of their profound affinity with mother nature. Or we could speculate that they learned how to get along with their ecosystems after many generations.
14. chelydra wrote: And we might give credit to the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa for letting their megafauna survive intact, through careful management of their own hunting and territories. Too bad that traditional wisdom is just about all gone now.
15. chelydra wrote: But I suppose you be within your rights if you gave thanks to the First Americans for getting rid of the saber-toothed tigers in your neighborhood, and keeping the mastodons out of your garden.
16. SparkleMenagh wrote: cool
17. Login wrote: ... enjoying a mammoth feast.
18. coho wrote: Nice mammoth!
19. bluemoon wrote: great!
20. lesley_gene wrote: I so enjoy your history lessons. It has been so long since school... Wonderful mammoth!
21. Shanley wrote: some intriguing way of thinking back...love your gallery!
22. Robyntalks wrote: Welcome to the Elephant Gallery! (Mamoth is close enough.)